Mother's Day

Mother’s Day is this 9th May 2008. A Sunday. It always fall on the 2nd week of Sunday.

Doing anything special for your mom or grandmother or aunties? All of them are female. Hehehe.

It’s the day where we as the child honour our mothers.
Did you know that Mother’s Day is like celebrated the whole year? It is really like the whole year. Different countries have different dates and with certain date have a special meaning for celebrating Mother’s Day.

Some believe that this occasion started off from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece.

Did you know that, UK & Ireland Mother’s Day is known as Mothering Sunday? Woah…Didn't know that at all. It falls on fourth Sunday of Lent (3 weeks before Easter Sunday). Believed to originate from 16th century Christian practice of visiting church annually. It’s the day where most mothers reunite with their children on that day.

Well for US, they celebrates Mother’s Day on the 2nd Sunday in May. I guess we followed them. For them, it was actually a call to unite woman against war. Okie..I don’t think we knew bout that. Did you know that in parts of US, it is traditional act to plant tomatoes outdoor after Mother’s Day and not before? Why tomato? In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared 1st national Mother’s day to honour the mother’s whose sons had died in war. That’s a sad thing. 9 years after that, it became commercialize. Then I guess that is how Mother’s day kind of slide of the track from the main purpose.

In most East Asia, Mother’s day is superly commercialized straight from USA.
Mother’s Day have been celebrated as early as in 2nd Sunday in February for Norway and as late as in 22nd December for Indonesia. Cool huh?

And and did you know that, Mongolia is the only country that celebrates Mother’s day twice a year?

But I guess we in Msia do celebrate Mother’s Day to really honour and remember for what our moms or grandmas or aunts have done for us.

Here I want to wish all mothers, grandmothers and aunts who have done so much for their children a very HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! Have a great one! All children, don’t forget to thank your mother for what they have done for you all these years.